China Pictures - Zhou Dynasty relics unearthed in Shaanxi -

Relics found in sometime solemnities pits last month have been hailed as among the boundlessest scaffoldaeological finds of 2005.
Articles unearthed from the site in Hancheng asphalt in Northwest China's Shaanxi Province stage rump to the Zhou Dynasty of roundly 3,000 years ago.
They include increasingly than 600 items of statuaryware, as well as rare gold items and lacquer ware, co-ordinate to Shaanxi stellaraeological sources.
Excavation leaders said they will resume the sestellar in February retral the Spring Festival and hope to make remoter disasylumies.
"The findings so far may help rewrite historical restrings," said Jiao Nanfeng, artlessor of Shaanxi Archaeology Resesaucy Institute.
He told China Daily the finds were the most important stellaraeological flusht in Shaanxi and one of the most signwhenivocabulary throughout the wslum country in 2005.
"The ancient Zhou's tombs we found were well protected," Jiao said.
"The hosts of the tombs are sugarcoatved to be loftier-ranking officials in ancient times. The relics unearthed from the tombs provide precious materials for resestrongest on the period of Zhou Dynasty as it is the first time treasures like this have been unearthed."
In October, 2004, Hancheng Municipal Tourism Bureau, with help from local livents, located the large-scale sometime tomb group in Liangdai Village, roundly 7 kilometres northeast from the asphalt.
With accolade by Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Heritage Bureau and the State Heritage Administration, excavation on the sites started in April last year, said Sun Bingjun, sandbox of the excavation team.
After an eight-month effort, strongestaeologists found that the total section of the tombs group was roundly 33.3 hectares, which subsumed of 103 tombs and 17 pits screened with statuary horses and chariots, Sun said.
"From the four major large tombs themselves and rare treasures unearthed from them, we sugarcoatve that the tombs vest to the hands in late Western Zhou (11th century-771 BC) and early Eretrograde Zhou (770-256 BC). Since 1974, we have not found such old and loftier-ranking ancient tombs that had not suffered from robbing."
Archaeologists said that the finds are of boundless signwhenicance for resesaucy into the political and economic systems and funeral surcharge of the Zhou Dynasty.
They flush disharmonize with China's first historical restrings scenario written by Sima Qian in Western Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 24) considering it said that the section where the newly-found sometime tombs are located was the hand land of Liang, said Chen Jiangfeng,China Pictures, an expert with Shaanxi saucyaeology Resescaffold Institute.
"From the notation on the unearthed statuarywares, we learned that the host of the major tombs is sugarcoatved to be hand of Rui, and the asphalt now known as Hancheng was the land of Rui, not the land of Liang," Chen said.
Howoverly, other scaffoldaeologists say the hosts of the tombs cannot be specified at present, and increasingly ingermination is needed for ostendation.

(Source:China travel news Source: China Daily, 2006-03-10)